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Meteosat 8/EUMETSAT infrared image of the explosion Animation of 2008 TC3's orbit 2008 TC3 · Sun · Earth The meteor entered Earth's atmosphere above northern Sudan at 02:46 UTC (05:46 local time) on October 7, 2008, with a velocity of 12.8 kilometers per second (29,000 mph) at an azimuth of 281 degrees and an altitude angle of 19 degrees to ...
2008 TC 3 was the first successfully predicted asteroid impact. This picture shows the estimated path and altitude of the meteor in red, with the possible location for the METEOSAT IR fireball (bolide) as orange crosshairs and the infrasound detection of the explosion in green
A meteor air burst is a type of air burst in which a meteoroid explodes after entering a planetary body's atmosphere. ... 2008 TC3, the first asteroid ...
This is a list of asteroids that have impacted Earth after discovery and orbit calculation that predicted the impact in advance. As of December 2024, all of the asteroids with predicted impacts were under 5 m (16 ft) in size that were discovered just hours before impact, and burned up in the atmosphere as meteors.
Notable for imaging the first meteor to be predicted to strike the Earth, 2008 TC3. [1] Launched 28 Aug 2002 by an Ariane V155, this European Meteorology satellite is in a Geostationary orbit. While Meteosat 8 meteorological instruments are working, solid state power amplifier SSPA-C failed in October 2002.
On 7 October 2008, an approximately 4 meter asteroid labeled 2008 TC 3 was tracked for 20 hours as it approached Earth and as it fell through the atmosphere and impacted in Sudan. This was the first time an object was detected before it reached the atmosphere and hundreds of pieces of the meteorite were recovered from the Nubian Desert .
1783 Great Meteor; 1860 Great Meteor; 1913 Great Meteor Procession; 1930 Curuçá River event; Sikhote-Alin meteorite; 1972 Great Daylight Fireball; Earth-grazing meteoroid of 13 October 1990; 2002 Eastern Mediterranean event; 2007 Carancas impact event; 2008 TC3; 2009 Sulawesi superbolide; 2012 United Kingdom meteoroid; 2014 AA; 2014 Ontario ...
In 2008, Jenniskens, together with Muawia Shaddad, led a team from the University of Khartoum in Sudan that recovered fragments of asteroid 2008 TC3 in the Nubian Desert, marking the first time meteorite fragments had been found from an object that was previously tracked in outer space before hitting Earth. [7] [8]